“It's not what the Masquerade does to you that you should you fear, she wanted to tell Ake. It's what the Masquerade convinces you to do to yourself.” — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Aurdwynn has one great habit, Your Excellence, one constant touchstone, no matter who rules.” Her secretary hesitated over the map, his own fingers half-curled,… — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“More than anything else in the universe, more than the power to dictate law at Taranoke, more than the knowledge of the count of… — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Better a woman of divided loyalties than one of no loyalty at all. Better a reluctant traitor than the terror of a true sociopath.” — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It's not what the Masquerade does to you that you should you fear, she wanted to tell Ake. It's what the Masquerade convinces you… — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“She liked his advise better than Pinion's, because it was full of things to accomplish now rather than things to avoid forever.” — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“... his skin almost invisible to Baru in that it was so very Taranoki (a little pale, perhaps, like someone who shut himself up… — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.” — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Without any outward sign or motion, in the wreckage of herself, she donned her armor, made it firm around her heart. Raise her mask:… — Seth Dickinson Copy Share Image
